A Grain of Sand in Lambeth has a cover! Many thanks to Caroline Dickens and the folks at UN Press for the design. Official release is December 2nd, which I am happy to share with the wonderful Jami Macarty’s The Long Now Conditions Permit, whose cover I also love. Preorder links below in comments.

@geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social - Ginsberg on Blake continues allenginsberg.org/2025/07/will...

I couldn’t be happier to read with @kathryncowles.bsky.social and @cathylinhche.bsky.social in the Highland Park Bowl on Thursday night! 6:30–9:30

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Schumer’s New York Times interview is a disaster after a dumpster fire. He needs to go. Now.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

Republicans will soon bring forward a “reconciliation” bill, that encapsulates the value system of greed and their obedience to oligarchy. It is the economic essence of Trumpism. It will make the rich richer & the poor poorer. It must be defeated. And we can defeat it.

Thank you to @amsterdamreview.bsky.social for the shoutout… and for featuring two poem from my forthcoming book on Blake in their spring ‘24 issue!

Happy 50th anniversary of this Schuyler poem, whose ending gets me every damn time!

Schoenberg's archives in Los Angeles are gone. 💔

The task of the community school is to confer more dignity on work by infusing it with thinking, and not to make the worker a compartmentalized thing that sometimes works and sometimes thinks. - Simone Weil, The Need for Roots

Bringing my poems over to to Bsky. Here's what I consider my magnum opus (for now).

Finally, Beckett and Derrida is out and free to download for a month! www.cambridge.org/core/element... Let me know what you think!

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

This tiny tiny play in a tiny tiny perfect chapbook from Kazim Ali takes place entirely with Neel’s back facing the audience as he sits at a bar. @kazimali.bsky.social swoon swoon swoon. P.S. the first line is “Idaho weather doesn’t give a shit about you.”

If you are a copyeditor, I hope something excessively kind or wonderful happens to you today ✨

hello the sky that is blue! i am a writer! who has written these two poetry collections with super long titles, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities + Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency. book covers are superb imo.

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.

Welcome to new followers. Please come on over here from the Death SXtar.

A lot of people have shared this poem over the past week. It’s a sentiment I think about a lot, especially now. I hope everyone is doing what they need to take care of themselves. One step at a time. One day at a time.

I just read the first two pages of Elizabeth Willis’s sure-to-be-brilliant new book, and it’s already pushed me flat over. Start anywhere / THE END (Note: THE END is the name of the first section)

i’ll say i am darkly amused by the increase in web searches for “what are tariffs”

A rare image depicting how saints were made in the middle ages. The image on the right is a close up of what you see in the sack in the image on the left. For centuries people have mistaken the person in the image on the left for a goldbeater with a mallet. He's actually making saints. True story.

Hell yeah! Diane Seuss is here!

So I'm booking on X (twitter) and migrating here. I haven't explored it yet, but it has to be better than the alternative.

I can't think of a better poet or a better suited conversation to confront and transform the long shadow of the days ahead than this one with today's guest Danez Smith. Join us as we navigate a way through Audio📻🖤🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/dane...

as long as journalists and pundits act as if they are amateur political strategists & not people trying to understand and tell the truth about the world, they are going to take the implicit view that voters can never be wrong, which then demands endless explanation of their morally blameless choice

We are so excited to reveal the cover for the 2024 Winner of the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize! Get your copies of The Tilling on December 10th!

Happy September! Our fall reading period is now OPEN!! Send us your submissions now through midnight on Oct 31. We can't wait to read your work!

Sarah J. Sloat with three visual poems at @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social, fresh from Walden and Summer ☀️ moistpoetryjournal.com/2024/08/28/t...

Fantastic news! I’ve been worried about this cottage for years…. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08...

If you live in the United States of America, *please* make sure you are registered to vote. You can go to the link below and confirm that you are registered. If you're not registered, you can get registered in just a couple of minutes. www.vote.org

Thrilled to publish this brilliant and moving elegy by @kaseyryoen.bsky.social in the spring issue of Seneca Review!

Happy birthday to Anne Fucking Carson 🎈

Over a year ago, my father died of Alzheimer’s when I was in Belfast. The end of “the long goodbye,” as they call it. I started this poem on the way from Derry to Drumcliffe, to visit Yeats’ grave. Thanks to @nimrodjournal.bsky.social for putting it in such a fine issue!

Our spring reading period closes at midnight tonight (Eastern). Please send us your work! Last chance until the fall.

A brilliant review essay on my Iliad translation, by brilliant Ovid translator @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social There is nobody in the world better qualified than Stephanie, to comment on the joys and challenges of producing an iambic pentameter translation of an ancient epic poem.

Spending the afternoon reading submissions for the Seneca Review, in my role as one of the Editorial Assistants. What a lovely time! Keep 'em coming! This current reading period ends March 31. 😀 @senecareview.bsky.social

There are more NYT pieces on detransitioners than there are detransitioners

Thank you to Kathryn Winograd and the Colorado Poets Center for interviewing Katherine Indermaur, author of I|I! We are so proud of I|I ! Check out the interview here: www.coloradopoetscenter.org/eWords/issue...

SRB has some exciting news! Congratulations, Matthew Morris! Many thanks to @walterspot.bsky.social for judging!

One of the most beautiful of many sublime similes in the Iliad is the moment at the end of book 8 when the Trojans, awaiting a great victory in battle the following day, light watch-fires all over the plain -- [lil thread]

This is a really good long read about life for the monks at Canterbury. Thanks to Luke Daly for writing it (and for the two other pieces in this series that will come out in the following weeks). www.medievalists.net/2023/10/dome...

@notquitehydepark.bsky.social gave a brilliant introduction for Donald Revell today. (And the impromptu interlude between Revell and Burt about WH Auden was worth the price of admission alone.) The poetry reading and talk on Enchantment were 🔥. I’m enchanted still….

Oh look! Here’s @senecareview.bsky.social

Happy 30th Anniversary of Last Splash Special Edition release date! Also, holy hell do The Breeders sound amazing on vinyl

it's time.

If you’re a poet coming in from Twitter reply here and tag the poets who’ve also joined, let’s rebuild!

I love that the word "cringe" has come to mean "my judgmental self-righteousness is so exquisitely sensitive that even a hint of uncoolness causes me to retract like a mollusk."